Body Systems 1
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.....
Digestive system
Body system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
Respiratory system
The body system that makes blood cells is
Skeletal System
Your body's delivery system is
Circulatory System
What organ filters your blood and puts the waste into your urine?
kidneys
This system contains the bladder
excretory system
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
Heart
What are the small air sacks inside the lungs where gas exchange occurs called?
Alveoli
The basic building blocks of all living organisms
cells
Organ that absorbs water and nutrients from food and carries away waste
Intestines
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
carbon dioxide
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord
Vertebrae
What does villi do?
Increases the surface area of the small intestine for absorption of food molecules to occur across.
What is this muscular bag that contains acid and breaks food down . It can hold about a litre of food for adults and a bit less for a child.
Stomach
Why do babies have more bones than adults?
A baby's bones grow and then fuse together before adulthood.
Differences between arteries and veins
( Why are arteries coloued red and the veins blue? )
Arteries carry oxygen rich blood from heart to the rest of your body, and veins carry blood less oxygen back to the lungs.
Veins contain valves, arteries do not.
Arteries have a thicker wall than veins
Urine travels from the kidneys to the bladder in this tube
Ureters
Bones are living organs. They are alive, growing and changing all the time. Three ways to make strong bones
1. regular exercise
2. calcium from food
3. vitamin D from food and sunshine
List the 5 main organs that make up the Digestive System.
mouth, esophagus, stomach,small intestine, large intestine
The four main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
Support cells protect cells move cells Create blood cells
These two systems work together to enable us to move
muscular and skeletal
What part in the blood stop bleeding by sticking together to a wound and helping form a scab.
Platelets
Three ways for your heart to be healthy
1.don't smoke
2.eat healthy
3.regular exercise
List the 4 main organs that make up the Respiratory System
nose, throat ( larynx), trachea, lungs, bronchi & diaphragm
Food spends about 2-6 hours in this organ
Small intestine
Three kinds of freely movable joints are
How long is the average adult human digestive system
about 15 or more feet
How many parts are there to the brain?
3
The two organs ___________ and _________ make juices that help food break down even further ( smaller pieces)in the small intestine, so they can be absorbed by the body.
liver and pancreas
If Cozmo lives to the age of 80, and Cozmo's heart beats an average of 70 times a minute, how many times will Cozmo's heart beat through a lifetime?
Explain your math equation.